Of these various economic menaces, the most threatening is higher commodity prices, which reduce the amount of money that households and businesses have available to spend on other purchases and, in the case of companies, additional employees.
Insults thrown at their key antagonists, the "US imperialists and their stooges" sound more comical than menacing: various state leaders have been described as "confrontation maniacs" "rabid dogs" and in the case of former US vice president Dick Cheney "a mentally deranged person steeped in the inveterate enmity towards the system in the DPRK".
David Jolley provided richly melancholy horn solos in Canticle III, and Bridget Kibbey, the harpist in Canticle V, caught the various shades of glitter and menace in the music.
I'll go this far with Chait: Conservative identity politics is a real phenomenon, and its various tropes (a "real America" menaced by Europhiles and "takers") owe a great deal to a Jacksonian, Scotch-Irish understanding of Americanness that's always been more tribal than ideological.
Once again, paranoia prevails, Barlow intoning "I'm looking down, I can see you now," while there's talk of hearing voices and a middle eight featuring various treated vocals that sound like menacing robots.
In Paling's world, intimacy carries with it an unmistakable menace, and throughout this novel, various couplings are revealed to have gone awry and bent lives out of shape.
At Vyborg, they get out of the car and are encircled by men of various ages, who try to sell things, becoming menacing when resisted.
"The sudden spurt of Irish Catholic immigration seemed menacing too, in the light of Vatican support for various reactionary European governments," reminds Gotham, the classic history of New York.
The result is a botched bit of play-acting that leaves them at the mercy of various oddballs as they try to make their way across Poland, shifting as they go from menacing to menaced.
